Today on Girmit Diwas of Fiji we bring you the heart touching story of the Indians sent to Fiji from 1879 to 1916 under the indentured labour system of the then British rule. The simple folk were ...

May 14 is Girmit Day - a day that commemorates when the first indentured labourers arrived in Fiji from India in 1879 under British colonial rule. The term Girmit, or Girmityas, was used to refer ...